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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2006.110</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2006.110</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Evaluation of methane concentrations in sites near the landfill of Palermo</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Aronica</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Bonanno</surname><given-names>A.</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Piazza</surname><given-names>V.</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Pignato</surname><given-names>L.</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Trapani</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Dipartimento di Ricerche Energetiche ed Ambientali (DREAM), Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Istituto di Ricerche sulle Risorse Marine e l’Ambiente, Sez. dell’IAMC – CNR, Via L. Vaccara 61, Mazara del Vallo (TP)</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>30</day><month>08</month><year>2006</year></pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-88-89884-05-8</isbn>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>6</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2006.110"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>30 August 2006</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2006 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
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      <abstract><p>In a precedent work we analysed the pollutant emissions produced by the controlled MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) landfill of “Bellolampo”, in Palermo, on the neighbouring areas. In order to evaluate pollutant dispersion, a Gaussian dispersion model was applied to a data bank, based on meteorological parameters and on methane concentrations, measured by the monitoring system installed in the urban area. In that evaluation the landfill was schematized as point source diffusion. The pollutants emissions calculated with that model are as more adherent to the truth as more far from the landfill is the investigation site. In the case of sites near to the landfill, the schematization of point source results less valid, when the spatial extension is comparable with the distance from the investigation points. This paper considers the above mentioned problem by taking into account as investigation site the CEP district in Palermo, placed in the proximities of the landfill area.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>landfill</kwd>
        <kwd>dotting source</kwd>
        <kwd>distributed source</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>30 August to 1 September 2006</conf-date>
        <conf-name>5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2006</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>5</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Vicenza, Italy</conf-loc>
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